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Gallery of the Louvre: Glazing and Problems of Preservation
Lance Mayer and Gay Myers
Description: Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre and the Art of Invention
Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre and the Art of Invention
~SAMUEL F. B. MORSE’S Gallery of the Louvre (plate 1) is darker and more yellow than it was when it was new. Such discoloration of nineteenth-century paintings is most often caused by a layer of varnish that was originally...
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Lance Mayer and Gay Myers
PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art
Copyright© 2014, Terra Foundation for American Art
Related print edition pages: pp.185-189
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00223.012
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20705
Chapter subject tags:Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872. Gallery of the LouvreArt--Conservation and restorationVarnish and varnishing

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